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RE: Spaces in Environment Variables


On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Herb Martin wrote:

mount -fsb "c:/Program Files" "/pgf"

Agreed.


A common recommendation in the Windows world is to use C:\progra~1 which is GENERALLY right but not totally reliable if either of the following is true:

	1) This is a second copy of Windows installed
		where an older C:\Progra~1 already
		existed -- and so we have c:\progra~2 etc.


Here's a new one to add to that: Windows XP x64 uses *two* program files directories:

C:\Program Files
C:\Program Files (x86)

Most stuff now goes in the second (x86) directory because we don't yet have programs compiled for x64.

Mike

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